Water, Women and Workers - Internation Days of Action 8 - 22 March 2007


Water, Women and Workers : Sources of Life

PSI's World Women's Committee will celebrate International Women's Day on March 8th 2007 with the theme Water, Women and Workers : Sources of life. This theme will also link to the ITUC and global unions campaign on the right to safe maternity.

To strengthen our campaign, we propose two weeks of action - between 8 March, International Women's Day and 22 March, World Water Day. The interdependence of women and water runs deep, and PSI women can strengthen the global fight for public water.

The main messages of the days of action are:

- Women workers and their unions demand safe and affordable water for all
- Water is a Human Right
- Access to safe, sufficient and affordable water is essential to equity
- Governments must invest in water and sanitation
- Governments must keep water in public hands
- Water management must be public, effective and responsive

PSI has designed a number of tools for unions to use for making these demands. These include :
- an eight page newsletter with facts, analysis and suggestions for union action
- small stickers, a big poster and postcards for mailing to politicians

This kit was sent to all PSI unions across the globe. The material is available in English, French and Spanish on the PSI website. Paste the attached link to your navigator:
http://www.world-psi.org/TemplateEn.cfm?Section=Home&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=15697

Please disseminate this material throughout your union and to other unions (especially health and education). Use the action pages in the newsletter. And let us know what you are planning so that we can share ideas with others.

The success of this campaign now lies in your hands!
Contact Catherine Vaillancourt-Laflamme, Equality and Rights Programme Assistant if you have questions, require more material or wish to translate to other languages. ([email protected])
Please, be active, innovative, and creative. And send us your ideas, updates, photos, so that we can share them around the world. We will post your material and more at www.world-psi.org/water2007. Visit the site during the campaign.

If you are interested in translating the campaign material into other languages, we can send the source files (in Indesign and/or Adobe illustrator) for you to work with. A source file allows you to easily write over the original text with the new translated version. Our affiliates are translating the material into Thai, Hindi, Bhasa Indonesia and Arabic. If you do translate, please send us the completed version.